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D-Index
66
Citations
13028
World Ranking
576
National Ranking
371

James K. Hammitt publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where James K. Hammitt sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 264 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

James K. Hammitt D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where James K. Hammitt sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 66 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

Overview

James K. Hammitt is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and specializes in economics, econometrics, and finance. They have contributed significantly to the subfields of economics and econometrics, general health professions, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, automotive engineering, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

Their research spans a variety of topics including:

  • Health systems, economic evaluations, quality of life
  • Global health care issues
  • Economic and environmental valuation
  • Healthcare policy and management
  • Climate change and health impacts
  • Air quality and health impacts
  • Vehicle emissions and performance

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by James K. Hammitt are:

  • "Assessing the health impacts of electric vehicles through air pollution in the United States," 2020, Environment International
  • "Health benefits of decreases in on-road transportation emissions in the United States from 2008 to 2017," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Valuing mortality risk in the time of COVID-19," 2020, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
  • "Fair innings? The utilitarian and prioritarian value of risk reduction over a whole lifetime," 2020, Journal of Health Economics
  • "Accounting for the Distribution of Benefits and Costs in Benefit-Cost Analysis," 2020, Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Lisa A. Robinson
  • Matthew D. Adler
  • Christoph M. Rheinberger
  • Maddalena Ferranna
  • John S. Evans

Their publications often appear in venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis
  • Risk Analysis
  • Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
  • Journal of Health Economics

James K. Hammitt has also published a book titled Prioritarianism in Practice, released in 2022 by Cambridge University Press, which has received academic citations.

Best Publications

  • Willingness to Pay for Health Protection: Inadequate Sensitivity to Probability?

    James K. Hammitt;John D. Graham

  • Valuing Mortality-Risk Reduction: Using Visual Aids to Improve the Validity of Contingent Valuation

    Phaedra S. Corso;James K. Hammitt;John D. Graham

  • The Income Elasticity of the Value per Statistical Life: Transferring Estimates Between High and Low Income Populations

    James K. Hammitt;Lisa A. Robinson

  • Cost-effectiveness of treatment for chronic hepatitis C infection in an evolving patient population.

    Joshua A. Salomon;Milton C. Weinstein;James K. Hammitt;Sue J. Goldie

  • Valuing Mortality Risk: Theory and Practice†

    James K. Hammitt

  • The Economic Value of Air-Pollution-Related Health Risks in China: A Contingent Valuation Study

    James K. Hammitt;Ying Zhou

  • A new meta-analysis on the WTP/WTA disparity

    Tuba Tunçel;James K. Hammitt;James K. Hammitt

  • Modeling for health care and other policy decisions: uses, roles, and validity.

    Milton C. Weinstein;Edmond L. Toy;Eileen A. Sandberg;Peter J. Neumann

  • A sequential-decision strategy for abating climate change

    James K. Hammitt;Robert J. Lempert;Michael E. Schlesinger

  • QALYs Versus WTP

    James K. Hammitt

  • Effect of the Fukushima nuclear accident on the risk perception of residents near a nuclear power plant in China

    Lei Huang;Ying Zhou;Yuting Han;James K. Hammitt;James K. Hammitt

  • National Health Insurance and precautionary saving: evidence from Taiwan

    Shin-Yi Chou;Jin-Tan Liu;James K. Hammitt

  • Valuing Mortality Risk Reductions in Global Benefit-Cost Analysis.

    Lisa A Robinson;James K Hammitt;James K Hammitt;Lucy O'Keeffe

  • Mother's willingness to pay for her own and her child's health: a contingent valuation study in Taiwan.

    Jin Tan Liu;James K. Hammitt;Jung Der Wang;Jin Long Liu

  • Assessing the public health benefits of reduced ozone concentrations.

    Jonathan I. Levy;Timothy J. Carrothers;Jouni T. Tuomisto;James K. Hammitt

  • Understanding and improving the one and three times GDP per capita cost-effectiveness thresholds

    Lisa A Robinson;James K Hammitt;James K Hammitt;Angela Y Chang;Stephen Resch

  • Effects of Disease Type and Latency on the Value of Mortality Risk

    James K. Hammitt;Jin-Tan Liu

  • Valuing fatal risks to children and adults: Effects of disease, latency, and risk aversion

    James K. Hammitt;Kevin Haninger

  • Valuing Changes in Mortality Risk: Lives Saved Versus Life Years Saved

    James K. Hammitt

  • Estimated hedonic wage function and value of life in a developing country

    Jin Tan Liu;James K. Hammitt;Jin Long Liu

  • Empirically Calibrated Model of Hepatitis C Virus Infection in the United States

    Joshua A. Salomon;Milton C. Weinstein;James K. Hammitt;Sue J. Goldie

  • BACKGROUND RISKS AND THE VALUE OF A STATISTICAL LIFE

    Louis R. Eeckhoudt;James K. Hammitt

Frequent Co-Authors

Louis Eeckhoudt
Louis Eeckhoudt IESEG School of Management
Milton C. Weinstein
Milton C. Weinstein Harvard University
Joshua A. Salomon
Joshua A. Salomon Stanford University
John D. Spengler
John D. Spengler Harvard University
John D. Graham
John D. Graham Indiana University
Peter J. Neumann
Peter J. Neumann University of Bern
Maureen L. Cropper
Maureen L. Cropper University of Maryland, College Park
Robert J. Lempert
Robert J. Lempert RAND Corporation
Edgar G. Hertwich
Edgar G. Hertwich Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Donald J. Wuebbles
Donald J. Wuebbles University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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